Q: “What is the anatomy of the Vulva?”

Oftentimes we have called the entire region of the vulva, the vagina. Hi everyone. The question I’m gonna be answering today is what is the anatomy of the vulva for people that have been assigned female at birth? So with me today is my Volvo puppet, who we’re gonna use to support seeing all the different parts of the anatomy. So what you’re seeing right here, this kind of brown part on the sides, is the outer labia. As we go inward, we have our inner labia or the lips of the labia. And there can be a lot of differences in the labial lips. They have found that labial lips can be anywhere from one to four inches long, that they can be asymmetrical. So one side can look larger than the other one. I feel like this is really important for us to know and pay attention to because we oftentimes think that all Volvos need to look the same. My belief is that Volvos are like snowflakes. [00:01:00] They are all unique and different, and what’s really important is that we honor what our Volvo looks like and how it feels and really to the beauty and what is true for us. If you need to see more diverse vulvas to feel better about your own, there’s this really great website called Gino Diversity. If you go there, you’ll see all these plasters of vulvas that have been done to really see just how unique each and every vulva is. At the very top here, we have the clitoral hood, and that really for some people can totally hide the clitoris. For some of us, we might have to move the clitoral head back a little bit. For some people, the clitoral head is a little less, so it might look different from person to person. It can have a protective quality. For it as well. Oftentimes, if we are going through perimenopause or menopause, this part of the skin of the evolve can begin to change over time. It can get a little bit more stuck. Maybe there’s a little less [00:02:00] lubrication that’s happening there, or the skin just begins to change, and so just adding moisture or a vaginal moisturizer to the clitoris can be really helpful and just maintain some nice moisture in that part of the. Here we have the clitoris. The clitoris is where the most nerve endings are in the human body. They recently found that there are over 10,000 sensory nerve endings in the clitoris. This is why people that are born with clitoris clitoral stimulation is the most reliable way for these individuals to have an orgasm. As we go below the clitoris, we have this little kind of flower here. That’s the urethra. So the urethra is where urine comes out of. as we go. Of course, deeper down, we actually have the vaginal opening, and so right at the very inside part as we’re going into it, it’s oftentimes called the festival of the vagina, and then the vagina, of course, is that tube that either brings a [00:03:00] baby out of when we menstruate, that is what blood comes out of, or it’s what we put a penis or a toy into for more vaginal stimulation. The other part that we have that can be really pleasurable for some of us is what’s been often called the G-spot. Now, the G-spot really is the urethra sponge, and it is a part of the urethra below the urethra that you go eternally inside. You can see it like the little ruffle that you see here for some people, because it’s a erectile tissue can feel really pleasurable when it is stimulated or touched in some ways, but it’s important to know that not everyone has a G-spot or urethra sponge that enjoys stimulation. They’ve actually found that there are some people that if you stimulate their G-spot, it might be painful and actually really uncomfortable. For other people, they feel nothing at all, and still others, maybe stimulation of that can allow an orgasm to happen. And so it’s just [00:04:00] important to remember that all bodies are different, and what you wanna do is to get to know your body really well and to really honor the truth about the body that you have. And notice where can you experience pleasure, and can you invite that pleasure emotion fully into your body, knowing the truth about your own anatomy. All right, friends, have a beautiful rest of your day.